MACEP Advocacy Report

The best news for MACEP in the 2022/23 legislative session is what didn’t happen - the legislature DID NOT pass legislation to impose a default rate for reimbursement of Out of Network (OON) services.
MACEP, along with the Mass Hospital Association and our physician colleagues at the Mass Medical Society and other specialty societies successfully beat back efforts by Governor Baker and the state Senate to limit reimbursement of OON services to the median in-network rate. Several of the bills proposed would also close off access to an independent dispute resolution process.  Expectations are that we’ll be back fighting this issue again in the next session, but it is hoped that as the federal law takes effect, the impetus for action on the state level will be lessened.